Day #117–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

butter Hashem today is day number 117 of our daily study of rambam seifra Mitzvahs and in the three chapters a day of mishna Torah were in chapters two three and four of them remember we started those yesterday and uh so we're continuing with two three and four chapters two three and four of those today correspondingly our Mitzvahs today remember yesterday we spoke about a person who pledges to donate the value of a person we explained what that meant yesterday so if that sounds weird please listen to yesterday's class today we have how many Mitzvahs uh three Mitzvahs all positive Commandments and they all have to do with the same type of pledge but a little bit different listen up positive commandment 115 donating animals this is when a person pledges to give a non-kosher animal or could also be technically a kosher animal that's not fit to be brought as a sacrifice for whatever reason like it's blemished or something but a person pledges to bring such an animal now obviously he doesn't mean to bring it as a sacrificial offering because it's not acceptable as a sacrificial offering what it means is he's donating the amount it's a monetary gift which he's phrasing in that way okay positive commandment 116 is if a person pledges to give a house is he giving the house the actual real estate or is it a donation of an amount is it a financial evaluation like you have an appraisal when you buy a house the appraiser comes and tells you how much is the house worth fair market value for the house so it's a similar concept positive commandment 117 is how to deal with a person who pledges a field he says I'm going to give a field if it's his hereditary property you know the land of Israel was divided into tribal lands so let's say this is the hereditary property that he received that's within his tribe meaning his father's tribe that's a tribal affiliation works is through the father so what happens is they evaluate the value of the field the way they do it is they calculate it based on the amount of seed required to plant that field if on the other hand the field was a purchased field it's not ancestral property but it was purchased then they calculate it based on the number of years left until the Yeovil until the Jubilee year when all property reverts to its ancestral uh ownership now you might be thinking how come each one of these is a separate Mitzvah the evaluation of people and of animals non-culture animals that's the second one then third one we said evaluation of houses and the fourth one the last one the evaluation of fields so why is that for supper Mitzvahs three today and yes one yesterday the rambam actually addresses this in Savior mitsis and says the only thing that these have in common is the word that they're all called the same word of arachim evaluations but the way that they are done is all separate the evaluation process and system is different for all of them and that's why each one constitutes a separate Mitzvah tomorrow God willing we're going to be continuing with more of related mitts to these concepts of we spoke about him the evaluations then there's something called haramim or Harem and we have to explain that tomorrow we'll see you then God willing